That is indeed the correct ID. Arisaema griffithii is a variable species and particularly in the Yumthang valley many brown forms grow side by side with the more typical griffithii. Travelling further up the valley beyond the hot spring towards Yumesodong & zero point the plants get smaller, the spathes get more narrow and the appendices thicker and more contracted until they morph into forms close to Arisaema elephas. The purple-brown forms of griffithii are sometimes identified as Arisaema utile (of cultivation) but that is incorrect, in my view that name is a full synonym of griffithii. The holotype of utile was collected from near Lachen and is a different form of griffithii with a longer peduncle.
Regards, Pascal From: J.M. Garg [mailto:jmga...@gmail.com] Sent: zaterdag 15 juni 2013 14:12 To: efloraofindia; Pascal Bruggeman; manudev madhavan; Jorge Lingan; phymata...@gmail.com; Pravin Kawale Subject: Fwd: [efloraofindia:157037] Arisaema griffithii Forwarding again for validation please. efi page on <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/ar/araceae/arisae ma/arisaema-griffithii> Arisaema griffithii ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pravin Kawale <kawale.pra...@gmail.com> Date: 8 June 2013 21:24 Subject: [efloraofindia:157037] Arisaema griffithii To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> Validate Please Arisaema griffithii At Yumthang valley,Sikkim 21May,2013 Thanks in advance DSC06097.JPG DSC06095.JPG DSC06099.JPG These pictures were sent with Picasa, from Google. Try it out here: http://picasa.google.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:indiantreepix%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the world): http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2110 members & 1,56,000 messages on 31/5/13) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 8500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
